Sentences with phrase «more belt tightening»

Most state agencies are grappling with spending cuts of 5.5 %, and they're bracing for more belt tightening as state economists prepare to release reduced revenue estimates for the current and coming fiscal year.

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Review your budget, and find places to tighten your belt so you can save more.

IBM (ibm) typically tightens its belt in its first fiscal quarter, so this was not entirely unexpected, but things did get more painful this time out for employees who opt for early retirement.

Just like Bernanke, the chairwoman - to - be has been a harsh critic of austerity and will want to counteract the impact of more federal belt - tightening with monetary policy, if she can.

The fundamental problem now in Puerto Rico is the current sterile debate between those who believe that salvation lies in more debt relief and more federal support and those who believe in more belt - tightening by Puerto Rico and market - oriented structural reforms.

I am feed up with both «parties» taking all for themselves while we ALL tighten our belts to GIVE THEM more!

Put your knee in the seat, push down with your full weight, and tighten the seat belt or LATCH strap until there's no more slack to pull.

The belt lock - off system enables an easier, more secure base installation by using a belt tensioning plate to tighten the belt beyond what you can physically do yourself.

* The CIOT believes that a key reason for the increase in unreimbursed claims by employees is that employers have tightened their belts in recent years in response to a more difficult economic environment.

The belt - tightening that individual UK residents make on their own charitable contributions in austere times makes it all the more important that government picks up the slack.

«With the nation facing its longest period of belt - tightening since the war, the Deputy Prime Minister said the «top 10 per cent» — around 3million earning more than # 50,500 — should brace themselves for new levies.

Culture secretary Maria Miller paved the way for spending cuts to the arts budget as her department braces for more belt - tightening in this summer's 2015/16 spending review.

«If we are going to ask people for more sacrifices over a longer period of time, a longer period of belt tightening as a country, then we just have to make sure that people see it is being done as fairly and as progressively as possible,» Clegg said.

He has openly stated that the state of New York is broke and that they need to tighten their belts instead of spending more money.

«We'd always like to do more, but this in many ways had to be a belt - tightening year,» Valesky said.

But with crisis - stricken E.U. countries tightening their belts, the Parliament accepted a smaller budget and pushed through other demands, including more flexible spending rules.

Well in less than a month and a half I've lost close to 20 pounds and I've tightened my belt by more than an inch.

Everyone is tightening their belt as a result of the economic climate but that's no reason to cut back on your dates, you might just have to get a bit more creative with your ideas.

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Our research shows that while a small number of schools were able to avoid the worst effects of recent budget cuts, belts continued to tighten at schools with more economically disadvantaged students.

«Everybody has been tightening their belts,» by cutting back on energy, making transportation more efficient, and even going to a four - day week in hundreds of districts.

Three rowdy robots keep a young boy awake with their requests for more oil, tightened bolts, loosened fan belts, and more.

When belts begin to tighten, the last thing publishers will do is offer authors more of the pie.

Females were slightly more likely to be the ones tightening their spending belts this year.

They were not having any problem, however they had, shall we say to be discrete, a little more girth for the belt to tighten into to keep it from slipping down.

In a time when we are all having to tighten our belts to make ends meet, when the government is running an unbelievably huge deficit, selling our childrens future to the banks, why should we give one penny more for climate science?

There are a number of ways to skin this cat but with Ministry budgets in a perpetual state of belt - tightening, throwing more money at courts, crowns, cops and (if anyone remembers to save the table scraps) legal aid, only scratches the surface.

Losing weight will help you tighten up that belt and keep more money in your pocket.

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In an era of belt - tightening, many companies are looking for more ways to reduce those costs.

Make time to save: Lending institutions are still tightening their belts, and holding out to buy during the fall season instead of the spring allows a few more months to save.

In the near - term, it will likely mean some belt - tightening among those with variable rate mortgages and lines of credit, and with more increases expected, some consumers will be scrimping further as the year goes on.